TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. We are starting to see some of the public market valuations impact private market valuations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust with their users, but of how organizations work together these days: fail to meet the requirements of these frameworks, and you might lose your business relationship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

In a statement, Square CFO and executive chairman for Square Financial Services, Amrita Ahuja said that bringing banking capability in house will allow the fintech to “operate more nimbly.”. David Grodsky, Chief Compliance Officer. Jessica Jiang, Capital Markets and Investor Relations Lead. Samantha Ku, Chief Operating Officer.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

When it comes to meeting compliance standards, many startups are dominating the alphabet. From GDPR and CCPA to SOC 2, ISO27001, PCI DSS and HIPAA, companies have been charging toward meeting the compliance standards required to operate their businesses. In reality, compliance means that a company meets a minimum set of controls.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This is where fintech can step in. As more and more retailers make this move, partnering and collaborating with fintechs can help them build, scale and secure their financial offerings. The sooner a retailer can gain a toehold in the market and start to gain mindshare the better positioned they will be when they start to scale.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 That remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Stripe has laid off some of the employees who support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources and firsthand documentation. The layoffs — conducted over the last month — are related to Stripe’s decision to wind down TaxJar-focused go-to-market efforts in late July.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Over the years, there has been a growing trend of fintech infrastructure players around the world. Stitch , a South African fintech startup, is one of them and today, it is coming out of stealth and announcing its seed round of $4 million. This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Since then, the company’s focus has been on helping employers deal with issues that make building distributed teams challenging, like variations in regulations from market to market, international payrolls and remote onboarding. One of Skuad’s clients is Indonesian fintech Akseleran, which needed to fill tech openings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. That’s the thesis behind his startup, which uses behavioral, financial and device-specific user data to detect fraud on behalf of its clients in the crypto and fintech industries. Sardine’s algorithm helps crypto and fintech companies detect fraud.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

There’s always a fintech angle , even on Valentine’s Day. Other startups have taken notice too, entering the world of multiplayer fintech, a term that categorizes socially focused and consumer-friendly financial services. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Droit , a regulatory compliance platform used by finance heavyweights such as Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by major banks, raises $23M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Yishai Lerner, co-CEO of JLL Spark, agrees, telling TechCrunch that commercial real estate is one of the largest and last asset classes that is undergoing a technology transformation, similar to what fintech was 20 years ago. market to be $16 trillion, of which technology could unlock a lot of the value. He estimates the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

He then joined a credit card startup and realized that product also needed a rules engine to manage fraud, credit and compliance risks. What’s more, explainability is important for fintech companies so that they can show regulators how decisions are made,” Diao said. “It

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering, making it the latest fintech to make a move to the public markets. Providing card services to fintech companies around the world gives Marqeta a $4.3 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

It’s been a particular challenge for the financial services industry, which has comparatively strict governance and compliance requirements. On the hunt for a solution to the chat compliance problem, three entrepreneurs — Dima Gutzeit, Avi Pardo and Rina Charles — decided to create their own, LeapXpert.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

“As a result, the addressable market for Kompliant’s services continues to rapidly expand.” But Katzin, right or wrong, argues that no competitor is addressing the “full spectrum” of compliance and monitoring services “across the commerce lifecycle.” ” Image Credits: Kompliant.

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Mobilunity

APRIL 18, 2024

The role of skilled fintech developers React experts has become increasingly important as traditional banking methods evolve. This demand has propelled technologies like React and TypeScript to the forefront of fintech application development. By 2028, this share is anticipated to exceed $400 billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Today’s banking-as-a-service startups are similarly placed — instead of digging for treasure in the crowded consumer financial services marketplace, BaaS companies offer fintech companies access to APIs, compliance tools and other software needed to move money around. Playing matchmaker between banks and fintechs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a staggering post-money valuation of $45.6 The latest financing cements 16-year-old Klarna’s position as the highest-valued private fintech in Europe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Quona Capital , an emerging fintech-focused venture capital firm, led the round. The case is particularly problematic in emerging markets like Africa, where local currencies are less liquid than those in developed markets. . based Nigerians took an emerging markets approach. And instead of focusing on Africa, the two U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. The situation is no different in Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

A growing market : Christine writes that Italy’s ban on cultivated meat could set the industry back. Wait, you can’t say that : Kyle reports that LeapXpert raises $22 million to monitor employee chats for compliance. Competition and Markets Authority is moving forward with an in-depth probe of the $61 billion Broadcom-VMware deal.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. We’ve all seen the headlines: Fintech is struggling. But fintech is resilient. What does a fintech company do when it’s under a fraud attack? mean for their business?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech. markets gives us advantages that we would be foolish to waste.”. We’re strong in cybersecurity and (to an arguably lesser extent) fintech. What are you most excited by?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Banks aren’t letting fintechs have all the fun when it comes to using technology, providing an opening for startups to show them what they got. For banks that need additional deposits, some of the go-to solutions are to open up a new branch, hire more relationship managers or increase marketing spend. trillion market. “It’s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development. It will also double down on existing markets such as the U.K./Europe. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Every company is a fintech.” . But these days, that’s becoming more and more true as an increasing number of companies that are not even in the financial services space seek to add a fintech component to their offering. Only about 20% of its customers are what might be considered true fintechs, he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Treasury Prime co-founder and CEO Chris Dean believes that the best outcomes for consumers will result from traditional banks and fintechs working together. The banking-as-a-service startup has worked to build relationships with both banks and fintechs. As we had more fintechs, it became easier to add more banks.”

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. These organizations have two choices: They can modernize their architecture and develop the technology they need in-house or collaborate with fintechs to do it for them.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The raise is another example of how infrastructure companies in the fintech world continue to be resilient despite an apparent slowdown in global funding overall. Its technology, he adds, removes “a lot of” complexity from the process, as well as compliance needs. Other backers include Citi Ventures, RBC Capital and Commerce Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In turn, this has increased the market opportunity for startups, especially fintechs and e-commerce, which try to provide various solutions to meet the financial needs of the populace. Thus, the need for fintechs and digital businesses in Africa to perform stringent KYC and verification checks on their customers. million. .

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

In fact, fintech companies on average spent more than $18 million in 2019 battling cybercrime, while other markets’ companies spend an average […]. The post How to Secure Fintech Applications and Protect Customer Data appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There are a growing number of BaaS companies, which all essentially have the same end goal — to make it faster and easier for fintechs and other companies to launch financial services and products. . We concluded that Productfy has the only market-ready solution to be sold to customers,” Khranyan told TechCrunch. “We

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